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Originally Posted by maximara
While GURPS does have Steam locomotives as TL5 it has continental railways as TL6 so it is one of these weird places in the TL scale.
Similarly the first plastic appeared in 1856 and was used a replacement for billiard balls in the late 19th century. Because of the type of plastic they were made of the billiards balls on occasion could explode. Plastic in GURPS is said to be TL7. Yeh...
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I have no idea what the logic behind defining transcontinental railways as TL 6 is. It seems clearly to be just a mistake although it is true that the only transcontinental railways actually being built in the 19th century were in those places where a single nation happened to span a continent. But that's not a technological issue. As for plastics, it's clear to me that they didn't have celluloid in mind.